American Gods Summary
Neil Gaiman

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American Gods Summary

American Gods, a fiction fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman, concerns Shadow Moon, who is in prison. The warden tells him his wife Laura died. Shadow is released and takes a plane to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man named Mr. Wednesday offers Shadow a job. He knows about Laura, which unsettles Shadow, so he gets off the plane and rents a car. Mr. Wednesday tracks him and offers him a job to...

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Neil Gaiman Biographies (2)

Neil Gaiman

5,317 words, approx. 18 pages

Neil Gaiman has helped to create a renaissance in graphic novels and comic books. Along with other British writers such as Alan Moore, and a host of American writer/illustrators, including Art Spiegel... Read more

Neil (Richard) Gaiman

3,629 words, approx. 13 pages

As Harlan Ellison describes it in his introduction to Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Season of Mists (1992), the announcement that Gaiman's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" had won the award for Year's Best St... Read more